Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Lucille Lortel clippings and correspondence
- Dates:
- 1982-1985
- Creators:
- Lortel, Lucille
- Abstract:
- This collection consists of letters, clippings, and playbills sent from theatre producer Lucille Lortel to her friend, actress Victoria Horne Oakie.
- Containers:
- Box: 1
- Extent:
- 0.1 Linear Feet 1 folder
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Box/folder no. or item name], Lucille Lortel clippings and correspondence, Collection no. 2574, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection consists of letters, newspaper review clippings, and playbills sent from theatre producer Lucille Lortel to her friend, actress Victoria Horne Oakie.
- Biographical / historical:
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Lucille Lortel (1900-1999) was an American actress, artistic director, and theatre producer. Known as "The Queen of Off-Broadway" Lortel studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1920 and traveled to Berlin to study with Max Reinhart, she made her Broadway debut in 1925 in a production of Caesar and Cleopatra. She then founded The White Barn Theatre in 1947 after her husband, Louis Schweitzer, pushed her to retire from acting in 1939. The theatre, located on her property in Norwalk, Connecticut, premiered numerous plays and ran many Off-Broadway shows. Lortel produced or co-produced nearly 500 plays throughout her career.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift, September 1985.
- Processing information:
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Collection is unprocessed. This collection was part of Special Collections' Performing Arts Division 100 series, and was originally marked 100-55. It is housed with Collection #2572.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-07-07 08:50:07 -0700 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Advance notice required for access.
- Terms of access:
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Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library at cin@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
- Preferred citation:
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[Box/folder no. or item name], Lucille Lortel clippings and correspondence, Collection no. 2574, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
- Location of this collection:
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Cinematic Arts LibraryDoheny Memorial Library, Room G4Los Angeles, CA 90089-0185, US
- Contact:
- (213) 740-8383